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In the 20th century, corporations recruited talented professionals but then nurtured them and integrated them into their organizations. Talent was part of their business foundations. In the more intricate economy

Sheldon Laube has been around tech for decades, holding executive positions at leading consulting firms and working most notably at Price Waterhouse Coopers these last few years as chief innovation

It will amount to being publicly shamed, and although Oracle gave SAP an escape hatch, it purposely made that hatch too small to crawl though. In a deal announced yesterday,

The changes in U.S. copyright law over the past three years affect the way damages are assessed. When a party is found guilty of infringement of copyright (which runs deeper

SAP announced today that several of its enterprise products will soon gain new features for visualizing location data from Google Maps. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and Streamwork were specifically mentioned.

Big, or at least unbounded data, continues to have a profound impact on business intelligence, business analytics and data warehousing. This week we saw a few particular developments in

The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band played and SAP's CO-CEO Bill McDermott took the stage. He looked great - suave and smooth.

This week SAP expanded the ability of StreamWork, its enterprise 2.0 software-as-a-service, to integrate with other enterprise SAP software. StreamWork released its enterprise edition in December. Up to now

I want to end the week with a short video by Dennis Howlett. The video is a fascinating exchange between Dr Vishal Sikka, an executive board member with SAP and

The days of enterprises choosing one smartphone vendor appear to be ending. Forrester reported last year that 60% of enterprises support employee-owned smartphones, and mixed environments are becoming the

Android use in the enterprise is steadily growing but IT managers have to rely on either ActiveSync or use a third-party mobile device management solution to handle security. Motorola

The consumerization of IT brings companies like HP and RIM into competition with Apple for enterprise customers, which brings sex appeal into the equation for enterprise vendors in a

Last week we took a look at several business analytics related predictions from analysts from Forrester and Gartner. This year's analytics product announcements are off to an interesting start,

As part of its Predicts 2011 series, Gartner has made four predictions for the near future of business intelligence and analytics. Also, Forrester analyst James Kobielus has written a

A group of bloggers sat at a long table eating lunch at the Marriott Santa Clara, listening to SAP's Vishal Sikka. He commented on Heroku and compared it to

StreamWork, SAP's enterprise collaboration SaaS, is now available in the Google Apps Marketplace. The company also announced an enterprise edition of StreamWork and a mobile application for BlackBerry handsets.

SAP has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion to Oracle - the largest fine ever levied for a copyright infringement case. According to Bloomberg, in 2002, the Recording Industry

HP announced today that former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker will fill the role vacated by now ex-CEO Mark Hurd. The move has surprised many who expected the role to

It's no secret that RIM is in trouble on Wall Street as it loses out in the consumer market to Android vendors and Apple. But what about RIM's core

SAP employee Timo Elliott has unveiled a prototype for an augmented reality business intelligence iPhone app. He emphasizes that it's a prototype, not a supported product. It's not available

Enterprise SaaS and PaaS (platform as a service) vendor Netsuite announced the availability of Netsuite Manufacturing Edition last week. The company's Manufacturing Edition is aimed at mid-sized manufacturers and

DeviceVM, makers of instant-on software Splashtop, announced today a $10 million strategic investment led by SAP Ventures. The investment will be used to expand Spashtop's mobile enterprise reach.

SAP's Business ByDesign (BYD) will be released at the end of July, marking the company's next steps into the world of subscription services for enterprise customers. It certainly is a

SAP talked a bit more about Sybase at Sapphire Now today and its focus for on-premise, on-device and on demand systems. But is the approach that much different? And is

When we talk to companies, you get a sense of what matters to them, what is the future and how the organization in question fits into the market. At the